In your editorial, you acknowledge your lack of expertise on the subject, but defer to weather forecaster Piers Corbyn due to his alleged accuracy in predicting British weather (that accuracy being generally exaggerated, with manycounter-examples). However, irrespective of his accuracy in making weather predictions, Corbyn is not a climate scientist; weather forecasting and climatology are very different scientific fields. If your cardiologist informed you that you need open heart surgery, would you ask your dentist for a second opinion?

Even with the rapid rate of global warming, it will still be cold enough in winter to snow in most places where that has historically been the case. Nevertheless, we are in the midst of the hottest decade on record, which is also difficult to reconcile with Corbyn's assertions that we are headed into a mini ice age.

"Can the persistent weather conditions associated with recent severe events such as the snowy winters of 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 in the eastern U.S. and Europe...be attributed to enhanced high-latitude warming? Particular causes are difficult to implicate, but these sorts of occurrences are consistent with the analysis and mechanism presented in this study."

Before opining about climate science, perhaps ask yourself how you would feel if a climate scientist were to write an article detailing how he would run the City of London very differently than you are, based on his conversations with an attorney friend. You would likely scoff that somebody would publish such an ill-informed article on a subject so far outside of his and his attorney's expertise.